Clinical and Applied Paediatric Neuropsychology

MSc Programme

The Masters programme covers a comprehensive syllabus in the scientific
body of knowledge underpinning clinical paediatric neuropsychology
practice as recommended by the British Psychological Society.

The programme leads to either an MSc or Post-graduate Diploma qualification.

Programme Objectives

To provide participants with a sophisticated understanding of the
techniques, methods and contemporary findings of developmental cognitive
neuroscience so that they can understand the consequences of brain
disease or injury sustained during childhood and examine the development
of brain-behaviour relationships.

To train participants to interpret clinical case presentations
within the context of the latest scientific findings of developmental
brain-behaviour relationships so that they can potentially provide
diagnostic and prognostic evaluations.

To provide participants with a knowledge of the major professional,
ethical and service delivery issues that face clinical paediatric
neuropsychologists in assessment and rehabilitative work.

To provide participants taking the MSc qualification with training
in research methods and statistics relevant to paediatric
neuropsychology through academic teaching and the supervised completion
of a research thesis.

Routes through the programme

The training programme in paediatric neuropsychology can be
accessed via two routes, the clinical or the applied route. The route
that students follow depends on their professional status at entry to
the programme. The clinical route is open to qualified Clinical or
Educational Psychologists as recognised by the Health Care and Professions Council. The Applied route is open to psychology graduates who obtain BPS graduate basis for chartered membership (GCM).